Improvement in grain-bins



Grain Bin.

Patented May' 18, 1869.

No, 9o,116.

f marasma "CLARK W. MILL-sor anatema,

BROOKLYN, NEWvoRK.

teammate N sonia-dated May 18,1869. f

TIMPROVMENT IN GnAIN-BINS;

i The Schedule lreferred tov thse Letters Patent and making part of the same.

To all rwhim 'it ma/y concern.;

i .Be it known that I, CLARK W. MILLS, of Brooklyn, in the county of Kings, and State of New York, have i invented and made a new and useful Improvement in Bins'for Grain, Sac.; and I do hereby declare the. following to bea full, clear, and exact description of the said invention, reference being had to the annexed drawing, making part of this specifica-tion, wherein- Figure 1 is a vertical section of said bins through two ranges, and v u i Figure 2 is asectio/n vertically and at right angles 4to Iig. 1. I V v Similar marks of referencedenote thel same parts.

Heretofore it hasbeen usualto store grain in large bins formed in warehouses, but, in consequence ofthe i ,i moisture of the grain,` it frequently happens that the 'top will become mouldy, and `,the bottom portion caked i and injuredby the pressure,`besides which it frequently `happens that the grain in contact with the sides ofthe `bin will be injured bythe condensation of moisture `from the heated interior portions. v To avoid these diiculties,f smaller' bins have been i used in warehouses, placed Auponv the respective floors;

but with these considerable `room is lost, and thereI is morehamlling. j Y A `The nature oi' my saidI invention consists in a series `ofventilatirg and supportiiig-troughs, appliedtransversely ot'l thel grain-bin, and in ranges, at suitable dis- ;tanees, one above, another, so that the grain is even `better ventilated than it would be in small bins, and

there is noaccuniulation of pressure from any desired height of grain; hence all the diiliculties heretofore experienced are entirelyl removed, and the bins can be madewith economy in their construction, and a large quantity of grain be safely stored `in as small a space `as, possible.

In the drawingl a b ed represent `vertical walls or partitions, forming the sides of the bin, and i c and f are other Walls or` partitions, forming the ends of the bins.

l have shown two bins, or grain-spaces, g and h., and an intermediate space, or `Ventilating-due, k, but

`there may be any `desired number of bins placed side by4 side.`

The bottom, l, of the bin may be iietor hoppershaped, to a slide, m, and any suitable roof, yor top t0 the bin may be provided at n. i

4Along the vsides of the bins, at suitable distances apart, vertically, I place cleats, or'ledges i t, which, for convenience, should also have notches, for the reception ot' the ends of the'troughs o o, that are formed of two boards, nailed together to form a ridge, andr these troughsare of a length to reach from one side of the bin to the other. L

These troughs o are placed at a small distance apart, so that the grain will'passrfroin one portion of the bin to another, and these troughs, being placediuU ranges, form floors or supports for the grain, and there is littIe 'or no pressure ofthe mass of grain in one compartment upon that below, because-the grain below only prevepts the grain above running through. Y

These troughs may be either movable or stationary,

and', being'of a ridge-form, there is aspace leftbelow each, into which the grain `will not pass, and, at the ends of .these spaces, openings s s are provided through the walls a. b or c d, and the atmosphere circulating through these spaces conveys away, by the flue k, all

the vapors from the grain, keeping the same thoroughly ventilated, and preventing injury.Y

I am'aware, thatrin the patent of L. S. Chichester for grain-driers, dated February 25, 1868, a series of `hopper-shaped inclines is made use of; I therefore do not claim the same.

I have arranged and applied the ventilating-troughs .in ranges, so asto support `the grain and adapt the dev iee to a bin for storing grain,.and at the same time Ventilating the entire mass.'` f Y i What I claim, and desire to secure by Letters Pat` ent, is

A grain-bin, formed with ranges of Ventilating and i supporting-troughs, introduced substantially as and for the purposes set forth. i

. In witness whereof, I have hereunto set my signature, this 25th day of February, fA. D. 1869.

, CLARK W. MILLS.

Witnesses:

GEO. D. WALKER, GEO. T. PINQKNEY. 

